Busy, busy, busy

I know that it has been over a week since I last posted - 

I haven't been sitting around on my hands though.

Actually, we have been very busy!

We have rearranged furniture in the family room and living room.

I am FINALLY getting a sofa for the living room.

I have been trying to talk the hubs into

buying a sofa every since we 

moved into the house.

It's being delivered on Thursday and I will be 

sure to post pictures.

Of course, I have a little project for the hubs to complete

BEFORE it comes - so he is at Lowe's this morning

buying the wood to get it done.

We (once again, I really mean the hubs) painted our

tiny master bathroom Sunday.  Yesterday was

spent putting everything back together

and getting things cleaned up.

I am working on a curtain

for the window.

I have come up with a 

temporary solution

that will work

through the holidays, 

then we will see what I want to do.

This week we are also

helping my youngest daughter and 

son-in-law 

  with the final touches on 

the new nursery 

and getting

big sister's room

finished.

We are also working on some

new landscaping for our front yard.

We have taken out everything 

in our two front beds 

and the one right under our

bedroom window.

The old landscaping was so overgrown

and really needed to be replaced.

While working on the flower beds

we discovered that we are having some issues 

with our irrigation system.

So, we have a call in to the

irrigation guy and

are waiting for him to come fix it

before we plant anything.

After all, we don't want to plant new

plants and then not be able to

water them!

We picked out the plants we want

at the nursery - so hopefully we

will be able to get all this done soon.

Maybe, before Christmas?

I know it's not happening

before Thanksgiving!

(Okay, I know that some of you might question

us planting in December, but remember

we live in South Florida.  If we are lucky

the temperatures will be in the 70's - 

which will actually make

it comfortable to do some yard work!)

We are also HOPING to get

the back yard fenced during

this time frame, but some things

might have to wait depending

on how much it costs to get

the irrigation fixed. 

Guess we'll just have to wait

and see.

So what else is going on?

Well, my oldest daughter is coming Friday

 for the weekend.

She lives in Nashville, and is going

 to be at a conference

in St. Pete 

Wednesday through Friday.

 We are going over and picking

her up Friday afternoon 

and she will stay with us for 

the weekend before we take her back

to Tampa on Sunday to catch her

flight back home.

Even though this will be

a quick visit, 

it will certainly be

good to see her!

While she won't be able to be here 

for the birth of the new baby

she will be back for Christmas and then

she will be able to

stay for a couple of weeks to help her

little sister with baby

and Little Miss.

With everything that is going on

during the next six weeks - 

Thanksgiving, Christmas, and

the birth of our second

grand baby-

I'm afraid that it

 will be the first of the year

before I have any of the tutorials ready

on the things that we did in the

guest room/nursery

(the rope boxes, subway art sign, and the headboard)

but I will get those done.

Well, I think you are

all caught up

with the goings on

here.  Hope you are having

a good November and I'll

talk to you 

later!

Hugs!

DONE!!!

This is week six, and the final week, of the One Room Challenge

over on Calling it Home.

Well, I will tell you now - there were times that I didn't think I would get the room finished - and while there are some things that I don't like and will probably change in the future - it is DONE!

First, I guess we should have a reminder of how the room looked

when we bought the house.

This is what the room looked like when we

first looked at the house.

Yikes!

So, shall we see what it looks like today?

I'm sorry about the quality of the pictures,
  they were taken at 6:30 this morning before Little Miss got here - 
so they are a little dark.

Let's take a little tour of the room first okay?
Then we will look at some of the projects.

You can see a couple of our DIY projects already.

I absolutely LOVE the headboard the hubs made!

I saw one similar to this on Pinterest

and when I showed it to him - 

well, he just did his own

thing with it.

(I'll put the links to all the inspirations at the end of the post.)

Love it!

I'll have a tutorial on how he did it on

a later post.

This was another idea that I saw on 

Pinterest.

I love the way it turned out too.

I don't know if you can tell but

we put clear glitter 

on the

"Twinkle Twinkle" 

and it just sparkles at night.

There is another little DIY project that I did that I just love.

I actually got the idea from another blogger

that is taking the challenge too.

She made a trash can using a cat litter tub, and I loved the way

looked.

 I needed some containers on the changing table

 for Little Miss and her new little sister.  

You know, places to put things like

shoes, socks, etc.

I had tried several different baskets,

but I just couldn't find the right size.

So, I did this instead.

I'll do a tutorial on this later also, but I'll give
you a hint, they are made with 
cardboard boxes.

Love the way they look!

This was another little DIY.
I've had these little plates
for several years.  
I'll tell you a little secret -
there're plastic!
I just hot glued the pop tops
off a soda can on the back and
voila
plate hangers!
They are just the right size to
fill in this little
space between the closet doors.

You can also see the beautiful
valances that the hubs
made.
Once again, Love, Love, LOVE!

Now, let's talk about some of the things
that I don't love and will
need some more
work.

First - the curtains!

I love the valances the hubs did, 
but the curtains are awful!
Once again, I saw this really nice idea on another blog.
I have to say that the curtains on the other blog
turned out really nice - mine, not so much!
 I thought I could make my curtains look as nice as the inspiration.
I ordered some ribbon online.
However, when it came in last week
 it was the wrong color -
way too orange. 
I didn't have time to order more. 
 I thought I could make it work.
Well, it just doesn't.
Not only is the ribbon the wrong color I just don't
like the "stripe".
It just looks like I put a piece of ribbon
on some white curtain panels.
YUCK!
This will be the first thing that will change
in the very near future.

The other thing that I didn't have time (or money) to 
do right now was to replace all the electrical plates.
The ones we currently have are an off white 
(okay, let's be honest - they are OLD)
and I want to have ones that are white.
This will be something else that will
be done in the future.

I also need to redo the bed skirt on the crib -
I was just in too much of a hurry (last night) to get it finished
for the reveal today and it just didn't turn out
 the way I wanted.
Another little thing to redo.

However, for the most part, I love the way the room turned out.
It is such an improvement from the before.

The main occupant of this room -

 likes all the changes we made.
Hope you do too!

Make sure you check out all the other
rooms final reveal
at
Call it Home
(http://www.callingithome.com/).

They are fabulous!

I might even be ready to do another room in April!
(I'm not sure about the hubs!)




Links to our inspiration:

http://emeraldcovejewelry.blogspot.com/2011/01/starfish-headboard-reveal.html
http://www.thekimsixfix.com/2013/10/nursery-progress-what-is-left-orc-week-4.html
http://thepinkclutch.blogspot.com/2013/10/one-room-challenge-week-5.html
http://www.etsy.com/listing/162673461/twinkle-twinkle-little-star-nursery?utm_campaign=Share&utm_medium=PageTools

Week 5 of the Challenge and still so much to do!

Well, another week has flown by in the six week challenge that I decided to participate in (what was I thinking????) over at Call It Home.

We did get a lot accomplished this week, but we still have

so much to do - and only a week to finish it up.

What did we get accomplished?

 1. We (meaning the hubs) got the trim up on the bead board wallpaper

 and everything painted.

2. We (meaning the hubs) made the headboard, stained it,

and cut in a special design.

 (can't wait to show you this - it is sooo cool!)

  Still have to install.

3. We (meaning me) made a subway art sign.

(another Pinterest inspiration)

4. We (meaning me) rearranged the furniture.

5. Spray painted picture frames and shelving.

I still have to do something with the window treatments.

I have an idea in mind and I hope to have them ready 

for the room reveal next week.

I was looking at some things the other day and realized that

I keep talking about this room being a guest room

and a nursery, but I have never shown you the 

"nursery" part of the room.

As you know, the entire room is being decorated around these two

watercolor painting that my friend Marsha Penn painted.

They are absolutely AMAZING!

Wish you could see them in person.

I knew that I wanted a new crib set for the new baby.

(When we were in our other house and Little Miss was a baby

we had a "jungle themed" nursery.)

That wasn't going to work in this house.

 While surfing on the Internet I found this 

crib set and knew it would be

perfect.

It really helped that Little Miss

loves

Nemo!

It all just came together.

(Oh, and before anyone says anything, 

yes I know that I have the crib bumper

upside down.  I'll fix it before the room reveal! LOL!)

I do have two different size Nemo's - I got the larger

one first, but they just seemed a little big.  So, I

ordered one a size smaller.

Then, I just had to get Flounder - even though he comes

from the movie

The Little Mermaid

he just went with the theme.

(Plus, I think he's cute!)

So, this is the nursery side of the room.

I think we will be able to get everything finished up this coming week

and be ready for the room reveal next week.

I'll work on the curtains, finish up the Subway art sign, and the 

hubs needs to finish up the headboard and get

it mounted.

Then there is the little decorating that needs to

be done!

Yep, it should be a busy weekend ahead, but am looking 

forward to showing you how everything

comes together!

Be sure to visit some of the other

great bloggers and see

their awesome rooms.

Here's the link:

http://www.callingithome.com/

Now, I'm off to take care of Little Miss!

See you next week!

Progress!

Good Morning everyone!

This is the fourth week of the six weeks challenge over at Calling It Home

(link: http://www.callingithome.com/)

Well, I think we have finally made some progress on the bedroom/nursery.

This week we hung the wallpaper (yeah!).

Oh my goodness - this was the EASIEST wallpaper I have EVER hung.

I can't believe we put off doing this for weeks thinking it was going to be difficult.

If you are looking for a bead board look and don't have the tools

 or the ability to put up "real" bead board

 I would recommend this wallpaper.

It gives the exact same look and

 is WAY easier to do.

Plus, it looks FABULOUS!

Now, we need to get the chair rail and paint. 

However, the paper needs to sit for several days before we paint

 to make sure it is really dry.  

I hope to do that this weekend -

maybe Sunday afternoon?

We shall see.

We have also been working on the windows.

Remember that material I ordered on OnLineFabrics.com?

Well, look what we did with it.

I still want to find some curtain panels

but so far I haven't been able to find what I want.

I might not be able to find them

before the end of the challenge - but I'm going to try.

If not, the shears looks okay for now.  

That is something else we will just have to "wing".

Dan even made them with a shelf so I can decorate

on top when we get to the decorating stage of the room.

Don't you just love Nemo?

(I'll post a tutorial on how we did the valances

 in a future post.)

So, that's what we have been doing this week.

I finally feel like we got something accomplished

this week after several weeks of 

detours.

Now, we're off to Lowe's to get the paint, chair rail, and some flowers for outside.

Have a super week!

Another detour

It just seem like I don't get to do what I think I'm going to do.

This is the third week of the one room challenge over

at Calling it Home.

I always have these great plans that just don't seem to happen.

Last week I planned on putting up the bead board wallpaper over the weekend.

Well, that didn't happen.

We did work in the room - 

I just didn't get done what I thought I would.

So, what did we do -
Well, 
how about some paint on the walls?

The room is now a nice soft blue.

That's all I was able to accomplish this week.

It's a beginning, isn't it?

Sure it is!


Let's see what I'm able to get done this weekend.

 If you want to check out all the
others who have accepted this challenge
(and probably get way more done than I am)
drop over to Calling it Home
and check them out.
http://www.callingithome.com/

See you next week!

Hugs -

Carol

Guess I should have talked to the hubs

This is the second week of the challenge over at
Calling it Home.

 


 If you read my post on Monday you saw that the hubs decided to work in the guest bathroom this week.  It is a project that we talked about working on, but I didn't think we were going to do it THIS week.

Guess I should have talked to him about the project I wanted/committed to do on the challenge - 
namely the guest bedroom!

Well, after a little talking on Sunday afternoon (in other words, my letting him in on my little commitment and all the different things I had in mind to complete in the next five weeks) - we are on the same page, and as soon as we finish the bathroom project we will jump on the bedroom.  We are sure we will be able to finish the bathroom this week - the second coat of paint is on the walls.  However, we still have to set the toilet - clean the room - and then do the pretty part.

While I might have lost a week or two on the challenge room I do have some things to show you and I'm sure I/we will get the 
room finished in the time frame.  

I have been picking up a few things in the last couple of months

 to use in the room.

One of my favorite stores in the whole wide world is Home Goods.
Love, Love, LOVE that store!  

I guess my hubs is very happy that the nearest store is almost two hours away.   Occasionally though he does humor me and we take a day trip down to Ft. Myers.  When I saw this comforter and pillow I knew it would work in the room.

  Saturday the hubs and I had to go into Sebring - 

he had to pick some stuff up at Lowes and I went to our local Marshalls.  I found these two baskets, the shelf, and the letter "L" on sale -  for less than $30 total!  

Not too shabby.

   I found the material online a couple of months ago 

at the Online Fabric Store.

I can't show you anything in the actual bedroom since

 the stuff from the bathroom is spread all

over the room.

We do have plans though.

 I have a big project I want to tackle this weekend.
I want to insert some "cottage/beach" vibe to the room.
I think the best way to do that is to 
add some beadboard.

I bought some "beadboard" wallpaper right after we moved into the house. 







 Originally, I wanted to use it in the bathroom that the hubs just painted, but he talked me out of it.  He insisted that it would just be too difficult to cut in around the towel rods, paper holder, and medicine cabinet - these things are mounted into the drywall and can not be removed like some can and this wallpaper is super thick and might be difficult to work with.  

However, I love the look of bead board. 

So, today I "suggested" that we use it in the bedroom instead.  He is agreeing under protest - his protest is, IF I don't like after we install it HE won't take it down.  HaHa!  Like that is going to happen.

So, my goal for the weekend is to get the wallpaper up and painted.  (Maybe the hubs will even get the chair rail hung for me.)  

 I think we can get it all done this weekend.

We'll see.

Next week, I'll have the beadboard up ready to show you (I hope)
and I'll work on a floorplan to show you 
what my ideas are.

If you get a chance, stop over at Call it Home and check out all the other amazing people who have taken on this challenge with me.
Here's the link:
http://www.callingithome.com/

Opps!

Looks like I have a puppy photo bombing. 

She just wanted to see what I'm up to with all this 
stuff on the floor.

You just can't get upset with this sweet little puppy.

Such a good little girl.

Have a great week!

Hugs -

Carol